Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

Chapter 29 Kerio Active Directory ExtensionsUsers and groups in the domain are connected to the LDAP Active Directory database. LDAPprovides some outstanding benefits such as the fact that user accounts are managed from onesingle point, which eases the administration and reduces possible errors (refer to chapter 7.6).To add users and groups, use MMC (Microsoft Management Console). New users or groupsadded to the domain connected to Active Directory with Kerio Administration Console will bestored into the local database of Kerio MailServer only.Run MMC from the menu Start → Settings → Control Panel → Administrative tools → ActiveDirectory Users And Computers.29.3 User Account DefinitionIn Active Directory Users And Computers select the Users section. Choose the New → Useroption to run the wizard for creating a new account.Warning: When creating a user account, ASCII must be used to specify username. If theusername includes special characters or symbols, it might happen that the user cannot log in.The standard version of the wizard is extended with a folder that will be used to create a newaccount within Kerio MailServer.Figure 29.2User account definitionNow, tick the Create a Kerio MailServer mailbox option to create in the database all itemsthat Kerio MailServer will need to work with. Define the basic email address of a user withthe Alias item (the user login name defined during the first step of the wizard will be usedautomatically).Other account parameters may be defined in Properties. Click on the new user account withthe right mouse button and select Properties in the context menu. Open the Kerio MailServerAccount folder. This folder provides the following options:Mail Account EnabledActivating this option you will allow the email account to be available in Kerio MailServer.If the option is off, the user account will be ignored by Kerio MailServer.308